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Following our publishing of the entry in Tamil of the Pondicherrian diary, and the mention of William Miles work, below is a passage from An...

I had hoped to publish here an extract of Anandarangaillai's diary in its original language, Tamil. Thanks to the generosity of M.Gobala...

I had decided not to write a travelogue. But. First day in Istanbul. The men on the streets, vendors, strollers, with their sunken faces. St...

J'ai parlé plus tôt de la nostalgie, telle que l'analyse Isaiah Berlin, et je mentionnais que j'en suis une victime. Serait-ce...

I'm thrilled to have a new guest on this blog. Jon Ferguson is a writer, painter and basketball coach. Not buddhist, I think. Nitzchean,...

La notion de nostalgie m'intrigue. Je suis malheureusement une de ses victimes. Il suffit que le moment soit passé pour que je le regre...

The notion of nostalgia intrigues me. I am one of its victims. Suffices that the moment be past for me to remember it with nostalgia.  Isa...

A dangerous demon lurking from dark recesses... Still reading (for the second time) Isaiah Berlin's "The Roots of Romanticism...

Je n'aurai pas l'occasion d'y aller, bloquée derrière l'Océan Atlantique, mais je vous conseille de vous rendre sans faute ...

- What brings you here today?  Young resident, end of morning. He's got a lean, hard face with blue eyes. Tall, thin. He looks harassed....

En lisant l'analyse d'Isaiah Berlin de la relation entre le romantisme et Kant (il y en a une), je pense à la nature et au libre ...

Klezmer music in front of the Brooklyn Public Library. Klezmer dance class for public. Would have made Glissant proud. Contributed ...

Recently on French radio:  Heard  a reportage on a maid working for wealthy whites in South Africa. She comes from Soweto where unemploymen...

I was walking the 10 long blocks from 1st Ave to the FDR with my son Numen yesterday. He was going to his orientation at Bard High School. I...

Le Pigeon aux petits pois  de Picasso,  La Pastorale  de Matisse,  L'Olivier près de l'Estaque  de Braque,  La Femme à l'é...